The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.